Close browser tab as soon as it opens - (Moved)

[Ama1899]

Hi everyone,

I was trying to automate an installer and was looking for a way to close a new browser tab as soon as the program opens it. The solution must work with any browser (or at least the most common ones).

This got me stuck for a while, any idea?

[Melba23]

Moved to the appropriate forum, as the Developer General Discussion forum very clearly states:

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[Earthshine]

What have you written so far?

[Ama1899]

The code for the rest of the installer. Everything works fine except the closing windows part. Right now I am using:

Sleep(5000)
Send("{CTRLDOWN}w{CTRLUP}")

however I was hoping for a much better solution, that worked without an arbitrary delay.

[Earthshine]

Alt-f4 should colse it

[Ama1899]

The problem is not closing the tab... The problem is that I want it closed as soon as it opens, right now I make the script wait for 5 seconds, which could be enough or not...

[Earthshine]

What application are you automating?

[Ama1899]

It's an Install Wizard, that, once the installation is completed, opens a URL on the default browser. The method of the arbitrary delay is working fine, however I would really prefer a method wich is instantaneous and reliable.

[Danp2]

13 minutes ago, Ama1899 said:

It's an Install Wizard

We gathered that from your OP. What is its name?

[careca]

Ok, couple of things: The preferred solution would be to do the install silently, or with a config file that ignores that step, i've seen it before in some.

Other option is to close the process for the browser as soon as it's up.

If that's not good because you may have tabs open already, then you have to go find a way to get how many/which tabs are open, and loop that until there's another one, and close it.

[Ama1899]

12 minutes ago, Danp2 said:

We gathered that from your OP. What is its name?

I didn't mean to hide it form you, I just thought it was irrelevant. It's CCleaner.

[Ama1899]

16 minutes ago, careca said:

Ok, couple of things: The preferred solution would be to do the install silently, or with a config file that ignores that step, i've seen it before in some.

Other option is to close the process for the browser as soon as it's up.

If that's not good because you may have tabs open already, then you have to go find a way to get how many/which tabs are open, and loop that until there's another one, and close it.

I'll try and find a way to close everything but the already open ones, thanks!

[Danp2]

Seems like CCleaner supports a silent installation. Have you tried using the '/S' option?

[Ama1899]

6 minutes ago, Danp2 said:

Seems like CCleaner supports a silent installation. Have you tried using the '/S' option?

I'm shocked I haven't thought of this before... Anyway, it works fine! Thanks for help and for making my script useless!

[Earthshine]

usually installers support silent installs

[Bert]

There is a much easier way to install it. Use the zip version of CCleaner. It is what I use. All you need to do is unzip it and your done. 

[careca]

But maybe you skip things like the context menus, no?

[Skeletor]

1 hour ago, Bert said:

There is a much easier way to install it. Use the zip version of CCleaner. It is what I use. All you need to do is unzip it and your done. 

I agree... and you can use AutoIt to run a command string like:

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'commandName', "", @SW_HIDE)

to extract the contents from the zip file.